The train line is directly behind my house. At first this was such a pain due to the constant sounds of thunder but now I hardly hear it because I’m so used to it. We have an extremely tall hedge which aims to give us a level of privacy from those sitting on the train looking out into the back gardens of houses, however today I was truely shocked.

I was sitting in the back room on the couch watching TV this afternoon and heard the train, so I looked out – but look at the hedge!! Mum was telling me the other week that she wanted to get the hedges trimmed because they looked completely out of control and needed to be neater, so the gardeners must have come to do it but look how insanely uneven that trim is!! I called mum to tell her, wondering if she was aware of what had happened, and she said to me “are you serious? That’s been like that for about 6 weeks now. They cut one side way too short and I told them to stop and not even it out.”

I hadn’t even noticed it until now. 6 weeks later. And I only just saw it now. Well done me.